Construction contracts in occupied Mariupol, and relaxation in your own home in Spain. Apparently, this is the life the chairman of the St. Petersburg Construction Committee would like Igor Kreslavsky. “Chronicles” Media” tell whose business interests he represents and why his wife needs a drilling rig.
From the family of the builder of the “Russian World of the Future”
Igor Kreslavsky was appointed chairman of the St. Petersburg Construction Committee at the beginning of 2020. Before this, the future official worked in construction for more than 15 years. He came to Smolny from the Rosstroyinvest holding (the main legal entity is RSTI LLC), where he headed the board. The founders of RSTI are Kreslavsky himself, his mother Nina and stepfather Fedor Turkin.
The latter has been in the media for a long time. Turkin is not only involved in construction – he heads a number of social movements: “Forever Alive”, “Historical and cultural educational center “Alexandrovsky Flag” and the now liquidated “Patriotic movement “Immortal Leningrad””. Turkin was also listed as one of the founders of the Children of Donbass Center for Charitable and Social Programs, and in a residential complex on Marshal Blucher Avenue, the developer built a church, which Metropolitan Barsanuphius himself came to consecrate. And no wonder: after all, Turkin surewhich is engaged in “confronting the propaganda of neo-Nazi ideas, affirming the values of peace and justice, and creating the Russian world of the future.”
The builder is also known for the fact that in 2016 he decided to get involved in politics and ran for State Duma deputy in one of the districts of St. Petersburg from the Patriots of Russia party. During the election campaign, judging by the financial report, he invested more than the other candidates in the district combined – almost 14 million rubles. But the developer still lost the election miserably, taking seventh place (even there were more invalid ballots than votes for Turkin). The winner in the district was the eternal Lisa Brichkina from the film “The Dawns Here Are Quiet,” actress Elena Drapeko.
In 2017, in one of interview Turkin said that if he or one of his associates “comes up with the idea of running again, there will be a completely different approach.” Apparently, promoting relatives to the executive branch is that very “different approach.”
So, in 2020, immediately after Turkin’s stepson Kreslavsky received a place in Smolny, one of the participants in the construction market said newspaper “Business Petersburg” that “Kreslavsky is going to Smolny to strengthen the position of RSTI in the budget contracting market. The company will take the most profitable lots in the coming years. I believe that the company needed administrative resources due to a decline in sales for commercial projects and primarily for housing.”
And so it happened. Kreslavsky did not waste any time. As soon as he took office, his family’s companies and their affiliated firms became the largest government contractors in the construction industry in St. Petersburg.
Government contracts and foreign business
The first scandal occurred a few months later, when Kreslavsky got to Smolny. The discussion was about converting the Lenexpo exhibition pavilion into a hospital for patients with COVID-19 in St. Petersburg. Government contract worth more than 416 million rubles concluded with the company “Lentehstroy”. The contractor received more than eighty percent of this amount in advance. The work was completed in a hurry, patients constantly complained on cold stuffy at night and stuffy during the day, cramped and uncomfortable showers and toilets, running pipes.
Much in Lentehstroy’s business connections indicates that it is affiliated with the Turkin-Kreslavsky family. So, the company in 2019-2021 belonged to Dmitry Yablokovwho in 2020-2021 also led Horizont LLC. Until 2022, Horizon was owned by the wife of Igor Kreslavsky Victoria, and now the company belongs to his mother and stepfather. In 2018-2020, the general director of the company have worked and Kreslavsky himself. After he left for Smolny, the same Yablokov from Lentehstroy became the general director. A year later, the company came under the control of Kreslavsky’s son Sergei. At the end of 2022 “Horizon” liquidated, and his successor became LLC “RSTI-Perspective” Fedor Turkin and his wife.
The resounding success of Lentehstroy in the field of government contracts coincided with the appointment of Kreslavsky to Smolny. It was at the beginning of 2020 that the company suddenly began receiving multi-billion dollar contracts.
For 2020-2023 (while Kreslavsky heads the Construction Committee), Lentehstroy received government contracts from the Capital Construction and Reconstruction Fund established by the Committee for 31.5 billion rubles.
It is noteworthy that this “Fund” is led by Arzu FataliyeV. Governor Beglov appointed him in December 2019, almost simultaneously with Kreslavsky. Like Kreslavsky, Fataliev also comes from the construction business. Previously, Fataliev was known as one of the top managers of the Petrocom company. In 2012, the company became the main defendant in the sensational “pipe case”: builders under a government contract laid gas pipelines and heating mains with old pipes. Damage to the city was estimated at 3 billion rubles. True, then, under strange circumstances, he “shrivelled” up to 1 million rubles
Another interesting detail – Fataliev’s first deputy in the “Fund” for a long time was listed as a long-time business partner of the Turkin-Kreslavsky family Andrey Polevoy. Since 2022, he has also headed the regional Pobeda Fund, through which Smolny pays for construction in occupied Mariupol. Recently, Polevoy has been deputy head of the Construction Committee, Igor Kreslavsky.
Kreslavsky himself, according to the Kontur-Focus system, owns several dozen companies. He had to transfer his share for the period of work in Smolny to his mother in trust.
The revenue of the family’s companies for 2022 amounted to almost 15 billion rubles, profit – more than 4 billion rubles. The volume of government contracts for companies over the past three years, which Kreslavsky heads the construction industry of St. Petersburg, has grown almost six times – from 5.4 billion rubles to 29 billion.
In addition to the Russian construction business, the official and his family are no strangers to foreign projects. So, for example, Kreslavsky owned in Turkey by the construction company Unique Projects Group Real Estate Investments Limited. It was created in 2013 by Erdogan Gunduzpolat, Fedor Turkin, Igor And Nina Kreslavskye. Then only Gunduzpolat and Kreslavsky remained among the founders, and in 2017 the company was liquidated
Erdogan Gunduzpolat, judging by his social network page LinkedIn, heads the Turkish representative office of the Russian National Committee for the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, the Turkish representative office of the International Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and represents the Pushkin-Pavlovsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Turkey. In general, it has strong ties with Russia.
In addition to Turkish, the Kreslavskys also had a Spanish business. In 2014, Russian media reportedthat Rosstroyinvest is going to commission a luxury residential building with an area of 3 thousand square meters. m for 25 apartments in Spain, in the Catalonia region, in the city of Platja d’Aro, an hour’s drive from Barcelona. Investments in the project amounted to about 10 million euros. The cost per square meter was 5 thousand euros. For convenience, Rosstroyinvest registered the New Time Real Estate company in Spain.
“Chronicles” found this company in the Spanish registry. Among its leaders initially was a certain Andrey Shashkov. We assume that this is Andrei Valerievich Shashkov, who in 2012-2017 worked as the general director of the already liquidated St. Petersburg company ARGO Invest, the ultimate co-owners of which were Kreslavsky himself, his mother and stepfather.
Wife’s rig
Judging by the declaration, Kreslavsky is doing well. In Russia, it has a plot of land (1,110 sq. m), a house (210 sq. m), half shares in two apartments (154.9 and 159 sq. m) and a certain non-residential building (76 sq. m). An official of sovereign Russia travels, naturally, in a premium car Mercedes-Benz S AMG 63 (the cost of this can make up about 14 million rubles). To buy such a car, Kreslavsky must not eat or drink for a year, because its cost exactly coincides with the official’s income for 2021.
Things are even better for Kreslavsky’s wife. Victoria Vadimovna owns five apartments (two of them shared with her husband) and 19 non-residential premises with a total area of 3,542 square meters. m. Kreslavskaya, of course, was involved in the family business, but she also registered as an individual entrepreneur with the main activity of “renting and managing her own or leased real estate.” Perhaps this is where her income for 2021 comes from – 84 million rubles? However, judging by the declaration, Victoria Kreslavskaya There is also an Ihc Fundex Equipment BV F2800 drilling rig. Maybe she drilled?
And, of course, a house in a NATO country
The city of Platja d’Aro, in which Rosstroyinvest built a residential building, is located a 15-minute drive from the Spanish estate of Kreslavsky.
Don Kreslavsky, as it is written in the Spanish real estate registry extract, owns the house together with his stepfather and mother. Apparently, the construction area is more than 377 square meters. m. The house is on the mountain. It has four bedrooms and baths, a dressing room, a kitchen, a dining room, a living room and terraces.
From this house it’s only a two-hour drive to the house of the governor of the Murmansk region Andrey Chibisand if you drive even further, you can look at the foreign mansions of the vice-governor of the Leningrad region Oleg Malashchenko or on the property of a State Duma deputy Nikolai Valuev. Needless to say, Russian officials and deputies love the north-eastern coast of Spain.
Judging by the declaration, Kreslavsky, in addition to this house, also has two plots in Spain. One – with an area of 2,231 square meters. m (the house is located on it). But there is something strange with the second section. Kreslavsky’s declaration states that the construction area is 8,015 square meters. m. The Spanish register says that the area of the plot, which Kreslavsky also owns jointly with his mother and stepfather, is a little more than 4,000 square meters. m. And judging by the cadastral map of Spain, the area of this plot is 3,420 sq. m. m.
The story of Kreslavsky is one of the illustrative examples of nepotism in Putin’s Russia. If your stepfather, a builder, beats himself in the chest with his heel at every corner, saying that he is a patriot, then expect that you will soon be put in a position, albeit scandalous, but a profitable one. Here you can even profit from the ruins of the destroyed Mariupol, and no one will remember you for your loyalty of an alternate airfield in an “unfriendly country.”